Indulge thine own desire, though it seeks what will ruin thee.

Yet wilt thou remember my warning, repentant too late." Then, protesting that she is like to die, she obtains from him that he suffer her to see her sisters, and present to them moreover what gifts she would of golden ornaments; but therewith he ofttimes advised her never at any time, yielding to pernicious counsel, to enquire concerning his bodily form, lest she fall, [69] through unholy curiosity, from so great a height of fortune, nor feel ever his embrace again.

"I would die a hundred times," she said, cheerful at last, "rather than be deprived of thy most sweet usage.

I love thee as my own soul, beyond comparison even with Love himself.

Only bid thy servant Zephyrus bring hither my sisters, as he brought me.